Sentences with phrase «defined pointed tip»

If you look at your iguana's nails, you will see that there is a quite defined pointed tip, which is attached to the larger part of the nail, which is attached to the toe itself.

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Integrating these tips as you consider your outlook for the new year can be a defining point in your professional and personal success.

It attempts to define the earth system processes that humanity needs to be active stewards of in order to avoid deleterious or even catastrophic tipping points in critical Earth systems.

With further sea level rise, nuisance flooding could reach a tipping point, defined by NOAA scientists as the point when there are 30 days of such floods a year.

With the pencil end, use the flat edge to shade and pointed pencil tip to define.

«We believe the tipping point between combustion engine and battery - electric vehicles will not be defined by [government] regulation nor by incentives, but by reaching real competitiveness between the two types of products from the customer's perspective,» Dr. Z said at a roundtable at the Paris auto show.

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Hackett adds that a good product categorizing tool which defines important similarities and points of differentiation will help a retailer in the following ways: • Determine which items fall into the good, better, and best within each category and sub - category • Develop guidelines for choosing new products to add to their assortment • Identifying brands that should be expanded or contracted based on growth and strength trends of each brand within their assigned category • Determine how much space should be allotted to each category based on space to sales movement • Determine merchandise locations and prioritize brand positioning • Develop advertising strategies based on these trends • Build a story line for the products in their store • Provide training materials for staff to communicate these categories to the consumer and the differences between them Here's a few more tips from Hackett: Categorize: A great buyer develops strong tools to categorize and sub-categorize their business.

Breakup of the Larsen B Ice Shelf triggered by chain reaction drainage of supraglacial lakes (pages 5872 — 5876) Alison F. Banwell, Douglas R. MacAyeal and Olga V. Sergienko Article first published online: 27 NOV 2013 DOI: 10.1002 / 2013GL057694 Key Points Larsen B Ice Shelf rapidly broke ‐ up by chain ‐ reaction drainage of surface lakes Lake ‐ induced stress set fracture spacing small enough for capsize ‐ driven breakup Lake interaction by flexural stress defines an ice ‐ shelf stability tipping point (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2013GL057694/abstract)

The reporter must also be skilled in asking the few important questions that define the tipping point of the argument.

On the other hand, the point at which the grounding line retreats from its current high ground is a clearly - defined physical location — hence another tipping point.

He described this as a «tipping point», but it should be clear that he was not using the term in exactly the same way as I defined above.

As intriguing a concept as it is, a «tipping point» is less useful if poorly defined quantitatively or largely unknown, as apparently is the case with two key examples that you cite: thermohaline circulation and substantial melting of ice sheets leading to «dangerous» sea level rise.

On the other hand, the invocation of poorly defined tipping points is a well worn rhetorical trick for stirring the fears of people unperturbed by current, relatively modest, changes.

Has anyone been able credibly to define where the «tipping point» is leading to a thermal catastrophe (whatever that's defined as?).

Sensitivity here is a dynamic sensitivity that Michael Ghil has defined as λ — highest in regions of tipping points.

The problem for environmentalists is that no such «tipping point» has been identitifed by climate science, and the social consequences of moving past tipping points remain poorly defined.

And since no one really knows when we'll reach the real tipping points (no matter how you define them), then contrarians would argue that it's best to continue business as usual, without any concern.

«Tipping point» tends not to be a very well - defined term, but my gut feeling is that we're seeing one now in the power generation arena.

Oft - discussed and frequently abused, tipping points are very rarely actually defined.

Many comments about the iPad can be found on Slaw, including my thoughts that the iPad will be the disruptive tipping point that will define the category.